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DaVinci Resolve AI Bridge MCP

Communityby Community (flamexnreal)freeverified Sep 15, 2026

Local MCP bridge into DaVinci Resolve that runs on the Free edition, not just Studio.

What it does

A Python bridge that starts from Resolve's own Workspace → Scripts menu and hands an MCP client some forty-five tools: timeline inspection, media import and placement, clip transforms and Fusion zoom animation, grade reads and writes, silence detection with marker-then-apply cuts, review on duplicate timelines, and render queueing. It was built Free-first: it runs inside Resolve as a menu script rather than attaching through Studio-only external scripting, so no Studio key is needed. The larger davinci-resolve server now reaches the Free edition the same way, which makes this the lighter, narrower alternative — fewer tools, one Python runtime, and a review-on-a-duplicate-timeline habit baked into the edit tools.

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add davinci-resolve-ai-bridge -- npx davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "davinci-resolve-ai-bridge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "davinci-resolve-ai-bridge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Auth: local-app — No key. Requires DaVinci Resolve (Free or Studio) open with a project, Python 3.10+, and the bridge started once per session from Workspace → Scripts → Resolve AI Bridge → Start AI Bridge.

Sample tools

resolve_statustimeline_overviewtimeline_frametimeline_audioimport_mediaappend_mediaset_clip_transformanimate_zoomset_clip_gradereview_silenceapply_silence_cutspreview_timelinerender_current_timeline

Field notes

Verified 2026-09-15 against the repo and npm: MIT, v1.12.0 published 7 Sep 2026, ~23 stars, one maintainer on a personal account created June 2026, repo created July 2026 — young, and the submission came from that maintainer. The npx line is an installer, not the server: it creates ~/.resolve-ai-bridge with a private Python environment, adds the Resolve menu entries and merges MCP config into the clients it detects; the stdio server it registers is a local Python command, with `npx -y davinci-resolve-ai-bridge-mcp --serve` as the alternative. Weigh it against davinci-resolve (2.6k stars, 36 compound tools, also Free-capable since its own in-app bridge shipped) and against Resolve Studio 21.1, whose first-party AI-assistant integration is Studio-only. Read the fine print: the README's live-tested matrix is macOS / Resolve Free 21.0.3.7 / Python 3.14.6 only, Windows and Linux are marked as still needing verification, and Studio-only effects stay Studio-only. FFmpeg is an optional extra download for source-frame capture. Tool names above come from the README's tool table, not a live tools/list.

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